Moving On

The coming week will be my last week at work, after only about two-and-half months since I started. Two of us will be leaving at the same time, we plan to submit our resignation letters together.

I feel a bit sad, of course. Despite the aggravations caused by a highly insensitive management, working with my colleagues has always been a blast. I will definitely miss them.

But then again, I have other things to think of, like my consultancy which I plan to take seriously from hereon. Professionally, I don't see myself growing with the company. There's just nothing for me there. Working for a company that considers its employees as "cost items" rather than as "contributors" is a recipe for disaster. I cannot work for a company that pays minimum wages to some employees and ask them to work six days a week in poor working conditions, with hardly any benefits other than the minimum prescribed by law. The high employee turnover is an indicator that the company doesn't really care much about its employees.

The cramped work spaces, the storeroom atmosphere, my China-made PC that is so dangerous because you could get electrocuted just by turning it on, and to top it all...I bring my own drinking water, for crying out loud. The list goes on and on. The so-called "clinic" is nothing but a makeshift compartment the size of a shoe box. It has a bed and a cabinet alright, but if you take a peek inside you won't see any medical supplies or any nurse on duty. It is a complete mockery of the system, obviously "for show" should labor officials happen to make an inspection on the working conditions of the employees. I refuse to believe that top management is unaware of this. The selective "blindness" is unbelievable.

The culture of inefficiency is deeply-embedded that it would probably take a lifetime to overhaul the vicious cycle of indifference and complacency. The worst part is that nothing is being done to address it.

I do not wish to be a part of this organization anymore. I have to go.

I'd treat my short stint with this company as a bad dream, nothing more.